Nina Viktorovna Dulkevich (nee Baburina ; 1891 , Petersburg - 1934 , Leningrad ) - Russian and Soviet pop singer ( mezzo-soprano ) [1] , performer of romances, gypsy and Russian folk songs .
| Nina Dulkevich Baburina Nina Viktorovna | |
|---|---|
 Nina Dulkevich (1910s) | |
| basic information | |
| Date of Birth | 1891 |
| Place of Birth | St. Petersburg |
| Date of death | 1934 |
| Place of death | Leningrad |
| A country |  Russian empire  |
| Professions | singer |
| Singing voice | mezzo soprano |
| Instruments | |
| Genres | pop , Russian and gypsy romances |
Biography
Born in 1891 on the outskirts of Petersburg, by no means a wealthy family. There is no information about the childhood of the future singer [2] .
Due to poverty, Nina began to work early. At the age of fifteen, in order to bring additional income to the family, she was hired as a maid by the head of the gypsy choir known at that time, Nikolai Dulkevich, who was also a very good mentor and teacher [2] .
Once he accidentally heard how, while serving dinner, Ninochka was humming something to herself. Nikolai Dmitrievich liked the strong, sonorous, floody voice of the maid, and he, without thinking twice, invited her to become a soloist of his collective. The first performances of the aspiring singer took place in a cafe-shantan. Two years later, Nikolai Dulkevich proposed to her [2] .
Nina did not stay in the team of her husband for long, moving to the gypsy choir Shishkin, who soon left, too, having started performing with solo programs. The first reports of the singer’s concert activity date back to 1906-1907 [2] .
From the age of 18, Nina Dulkevich began touring in Russia [3] . The first reports of the concert activities of Nina Dulkevich date back to 1906. As a “Russian-Gypsy singer”, accompanied by two guitars in 1907, she performed on the program of one of the fashionable St. Petersburg Aquarium gardens. In the same 1907, she participated in a concert on the occasion of the guard festival in Tsarskoye Selo . The first reviews noted the modesty of her vocal and acting data. But Dulkevich confidently expands his repertoire, works hard and, starting in 1910, moves on to solo programs.
Since 1911, regular concerts of Nina Dulkevich began in Moscow and St. Petersburg, she performed ancient gypsy romances. Concerts are held annually in the Great Halls of the Noble Assembly of both capitals with a large crowd of people [4] . Among her admirers are Alexander Kuprin , Leonid Andreev .
The purity of phrasing, temperament, combined with sincerity, sincereness, expressive piano distinguish her performance of songs (including from "Living Corpse": "At the Fateful Hour", "Non-Evening", "Shel me verst"), ancient romances, Russian songs. Her chesty, low voice conveyed "the poetry of wild will, a dark night by a blazing bonfire, dashing distance and quiet sadness" (Rampa and life. 1912. No. 47). I sang tabor songs with a gypsy choir: Nikolai Shishkin in Petersburg, with Strelna Choir of Ivan Lebedev in Moscow.
She recorded on the discs of the company Pate , in addition to tabor songs and romances (“No, he didn’t like”, “Come on, coachman”, “Corner”, “I do not want the light to know”, etc.), also Russian folk songs ( “Evening is late from the forest”, “Ah, Kumushka”, etc.) [5] . The first recorded a gypsy dance song “ Valenki ” on a gramophone record, which gained fame in the 1940s by Lydia Ruslanova .
In the very first sung old romance “Weeping Willows Doze” the singer unfolded all the charm of a richly gifted nature. <...> She sang an encore of infinitely many modern romances and Russian songs and, finally, <...> suddenly, by some chance or by whim, she sang a real gypsy tabor song. I will never forget this sudden, strong, passionate experience. It was as if in a room where it smelled of fashionable perfumes, suddenly a strong aroma of some wild flower, dodger, wormwood or rose hips breathed. <...> I heard the enchanted spectators gradually subside, and for a long time no sound, no rustle was heard in the huge hall, except for this sweet, gentle, longing and fiery motive, pouring like light red wine. Of the thousands present, hardly one understood the words of the song, but each sang her soul to the primitive bestial instinctive charm.
... And sorry - oh, what a pity! - that she, Russian by origin and blood, but a gypsy of souls, the only and, it seems, the last representative of a gypsy old, field, camp song, is condemned to sing different mealy “Chrysanthemums” and “Corners”. [6] .
In addition to direct performance, Nina Dulkevich composed the words for several romances, the most famous of which - “How Good Those Eyes” was put to music by Pyotr Fabinov. Oddly enough, but this romance gained the greatest fame in the performance of another pop singer, Natalia Tamara . In 1913, an Amur Gramophone label released a record with this romance, which has withstood several reprints [7] .
In 1915-1917 she performed in miniature theaters, toured the country, gave many charity concerts.
In 1917-1920 she continued to perform her repertoire in the miniature theaters of Petrograd, in the early 1920s on the summer stage.
The campaign to combat " gypsy " and "philistine vulgarity" that unfolded in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s and early 1930s left the artist without a previous repertoire. In the last years of her life, Nina Dulkevich switched to the performance of children's songs, skillfully imitating the children's voice and intonations of the child.
The singer died before she was 43 years old. She was buried at the Smolensk Orthodox Cemetery in Leningrad.
Notes
- ↑ DULKEVICH Nina Viktorovna (inaccessible link)
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 NINA DULKEVICH - Forum . pogudin-oleg.ru. Date of treatment April 30, 2019.
- ↑ Nina Dulkevich "Music online video, download mp3, chanson online video download
- ↑ Archives of Russia. Archival Directories Archived July 3, 2011 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ Dulkevich N.V. - IN THE WORLD OF CIRCUS AND ESTRADE . www.ruscircus.ru. Date of treatment April 30, 2019.
- ↑ “Concert of Nina Dulkevich” // Vologda leaf. - 1916. - No. 1105
- ↑ “How Good Those Eyes are” (music by Pyotr Fabinov, lyrics by Nina Dulkevich) - performed by Natalya Tamara : Russian romance with piano accompaniment, Amour Gramophone C 2-23778, Petrograd, 1913.